Best Way to Fix the Supreme Court’s Attack on Voting Rights
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Obama warns Supreme Court ruling guts Voting Rights Act protections, but critics note he backed Virginia redistricting favoring Democrats days earlier.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority has handed Republicans their biggest victory yet in the battle to control the House of Representatives and statehouses across the country.
The Black voters who defended the map urged the court to turn down the request to skip the 32-day waiting period. They told the justices that the Supreme Court should give them the chance “to seek [] rehearing in the ordinary course” – which would mean filing a petition for rehearing within 25 days of the court’s decision.
The high court a decade ago explicitly overturned the legal standard that prosecutors are now citing to charge Comey with threatening President Trump.
Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry said Thursday that the state will suspend its May 16 House primaries in the wake of the Supreme Court striking down the state's Congressional map.
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In major Voting Rights Act case, Supreme Court strikes down redistricting map challenged as racially discriminatory
The Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a Louisiana congressional map that a group of voters who describe themselves as “non-African American” had challenged as the product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.
Get live updates and the latest news as the Supreme Court weighs Trump's effort to revoke TPS immigration protections and the Senate Banking Committee votes on Kevin Warsh's nomination for Fed chair.
The Supreme Court is siding with a faith-based pregnancy center that raised First Amendment concerns about an investigation into whether it misled people to discourage abortions.